School Leaf Photograph

 

In these photographs, I used m mode and settled the focus to the closest so I could get a closer view of these leaves or things on the ground. I took a lot of photos of a whole leaf; there are all many different kinds of them, and for each leaf, I took it from several different angles. After I finished, I checked all the photos on my computer but didn’t find any interesting photographs of the leaves. Finally, I decided to crop them; otherwise, these photos are too common. During the cropping, I only left a small portion of each leaf that contained the shape of its edge because I thought these different shapes of the leaf’s edges could be appealing.

 

Closed-up Leaf Photograph

These photos were taken in the photography fab lab (idk if that is correct). After we collected the leaves, we cleaned them with fresh water dried them between water, and folded them into the Bible. After 48 hours, these leaves are fully dry; this pattern can be clearly seen. So we put the leaf in a machine in the photography fab lab where there is light; this strong light made the pattern on the leaves even more obverse. I combined leaves with another leaves into different styles, and Jarrry used his 150000rmb camera to take some great quality photos. I cropped all of the photos because they are boring; I cropped some into symmetrical shapes, and some show the shape of their edges. I also turned the brightness a little bit down because, in that case, you can see the pattern better.

 

Photos of People Making Art

These are collections of photographs of people making art. I first took a really close-up of their art; I stood a little bit further and maximized the zoom-in so that I would get a flatter frame. In the close-up, you can clearly see the detail of each sand piece. In this close-up photo, I also used the sand container to frame the artwork, but the container isn’t obvious because the aperture is too big and the container is too blurry. Secondly, I zoom in on the tool the person is using with a vertical frame so the viewer can see both the tool and the artwork. This photo shows the crack of their hand, which also shows that we practiced this skill with lots of effort. Lastly, I put every photo in the filter, which makes a better sense of culture and skill.